城市、舊習、犯罪──閱讀《龍山寺的曹老人》系列戰後三作品

City, Old Customs, and Crimes -Reading Three of the Post-WWll old Mr. So at Ryuzan-Temple Series

1936年台北帝國大學新設解剖學教室，金關丈夫應聘就任為教授；並在此解剖學教室開始針對臺灣各個民族展開相關調查研究。1941年金關以筆名林熊生在《臺灣警察時報》發表了偵探小說〈船中的殺人〉；並於1943年開始陸續發表以臺灣人素人偵探為主角的偵探小說「龍山寺的曹老人」系列作品。這系列作品之後或出版為小說集或被編入精選輯發行。同期間金關與池田敏雄等人共同創刊《民俗臺灣》致力於蒐集、記錄臺灣傳統文化、風俗民情。本論文以金關的偵探小說中生動地描寫著台灣人主角的「龍山寺的曹老人」系列後期作品為中心進行考察，探討各作品中所謂的「娛樂性」及其「後殖民」意義所在。

Taipei Imperial University had newly-established the anatomy laboratory since 1936, and Kanaseki Takeo took up the position as a professor. He started to study and conduct investigations for Taiwan ethnic groups in the anatomy laboratory. Kanaseki Takeo also used pseudonym, Lin, Hsiung-Sheng to publish the detective fiction Murdering on the Boat on the Taiwan Police Newspaper. He had published a series work of Old Mr. So at Ryuzan-Temple which adopted a Taiwanese ordinary detective as the main character since 1943. The series of works had been edited as a collection of novels or special edition in publishing. During the period, Kanaseki Takeo and Ikeda Toshio created the Folk Customs in Taiwan together to survey and record the Taiwan traditional culture and local customs. The paper is to explore of Kanaseki Takeo's Post-WWII Old Mr. So at Ryuzan-Temple Series from the perspectives of “entertainment” and “post-colonialism.”